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check it out here at the american teen doc's site (hopefully it is just one song they have there & it won't be a whole different one by the time u get there - it's the song with a dude singing "turn up the radio, etc., etc.")

Check out the positive review of Tre at LA Weekly . Here is the opening: "Unlike most indie dramas about rudderless 20-somethings who exorcise their hang-ups by talking and screwing each other to death, Tre is something rare: a perceptive, nonindulgent chamber piece that wrings a little art from that anxious age." Read the rest here . To find out more about Tre, go here . - Sujewa

Here's the trailer, thanks AsianAmericanFilm.com !: Here's the official website for Tre . And the Tre director's MySpace page . A synopsis of the film, from a press release, via AsianAmericanFilm : "Tre arrives unannounced at a secluded mountain home where his friends Gabe and Kakela allow him to crash on their couch. But Kakela becomes increasingly annoyed with Tre when he begins a revenge-fueled sexual affair with her best friend, Nina. As Kakela watches Nina's marriage unravel, she begins to question her devotion to Gabe. Unsure of her motives, she accepts a dare devised by Tre -- a simple 10-second experiment that changes her life forever. Sexual competition and moral ambiguity are the only constants in Eric Byler's searing follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2003 Independent Spirit Award nominated film, "Charlotte Sometimes," the sexy anti-romance celebrated by film critic Roger Ebert as a "breakthrough for Asian American cinema." “Tr...

From June '06, at American Buddhist Net . Here is a segment: " The film seems to waver between a comment on the human condition in general and on the condition of war. What do you think is the relation between the two? Any war film, when you call it such - and we have seen thousands of war films coming from Hollywood or other parts of the world - is generally called an "action" film, as you know. But in my experience, war in Sri Lanka or elsewhere, there is not that kind of "action" in the war. So the war in action films is completely fabricated, fictionalized by the filmmakers. None of us experience the real war and the real results of the war in that way. So I thought of putting it a different way, by completely removing the subject called "action" from the film, but of course keeping the action that is there in day-to-day life, normal people, how they behave, how they act in normal life." Read the rest of the interview here . :: And h...

From Vulture :

A 4 minute clip from Texas Snow , the new film by Aaron Coffman ; beautifully shot, good music: Texas Snow | Extended Clip from Aaron Coffman on Vimeo .

From this article : "But can film really unite us? Can it evoke empathy for people we've never met and likely never will? And even if powerful film does inspire empathy, will that lead to real change? Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee and Hannah Merriman , co-founders of the Global Oneness Project believe that it can. According to their website, the Global Oneness Project "was created to discover and document the diverse ways in which the emerging consciousness of oneness is impacting people's lives. We are traveling worldwide with a small camera crew, asking people from a variety of disciplines whose work is grounded in a perspective of oneness for their stories and insights." Read the rest here . - Sujewa

First, check out GreenCine Daily's A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy post for a few links. Then, check out this Sundance promo video with a brief interview with the director & two of the actors, plus a clip from the movie: And finally, Black & Sexy on MySpace . - Sujewa

The Puffy Chair by the Duplass brothers was funny & enjoyable, & it received good distribution for a low/"no"-budget, no-star DV movie, and now it looks like the Duplass's new movie Baghead will also be seen by a bunch of people; from The Hollywood Reporter : "Sony Pictures Classics has picked up all North American rights to "Baghead," the sophomore feature from brothers Mark and Jay Duplass." Read the rest of the story here . - Sujewa